Least favourite part of a paint-job?

[Babelfish]

I seem to remember this one being done before in the dim & distant, but members have come & gone since so I thought it was worth a repeat.

So to start things off, mine is belts and webbing. No matter what scale, I almost always struggle with them before I'm at a point where I'm happy (or can say "it'll do"). Get them right and they can really enhance a piece. But get them wrong and they can ruin it, even if the rest of the paint-job is top-notch.

There's no getting away from them either, pretty much every figure from every era has at least one.

- Steve

 

[Nap]

Hi Steve

Good idea for a thread .......for me it's starting the flesh ..once going I'm fine but currently I am painting flesh last ..,Heavan knows why !

Hair seems not to like me either !

Happy days

Nap

 

[DaddyO]

Got to say gold and silver braiding - I manage usually, but am never entirely happy with the results hence my preference for figures without them

(I almost always leave the skin till last Kev, because I like painting it - Bit like saving the best part of a meal till the end)

Toodlepip
Paul

 

[Banjer]

I am never satisfied with eyes, any scale, they always look dead. i struggle with mouths too.

Bill

 

[Airkid]

Hands and (bare) feet. I'm never happy with the result. Even if they are well sculpted I seem to struggle with them

Phil

 

[valiant]

I dont like the bit where you pick the brush up right through to where you put it away again....

 

[DaddyO]

I dont like the bit where you pick the brush up right through to where you put it away again....

I have days like that too

 

[Nap]

Hands and (bare) feet. I'm never happy with the result. Even if they are well sculpted I seem to struggle with them

Phil

Luckily I don't have that problem with busts ...lol ...PHEW!!!!

Nap

 

[Babelfish]

I dont like the bit where you pick the brush up right through to where you put it away again....

 

[Babelfish]

Hands and (bare) feet. I'm never happy with the result. Even if they are well sculpted I seem to struggle with them

I know what you mean Phil. Not helped by the fact that these are sometimes the weakest part of a sculpt, as if the sculptor just wanted to get finished with the job ASAP.

- Steve

 

[Viking Bob]

And me, hands are always the last thing I do, perhaps I ought to paint them yellow, with black bits. I never seem to get the flesh looking good.

 

[Old Pete]

For me it,s trying to paint the strips on highlanders stockings.Murder

 

[Forté]

Being nearly finished

 

[housecarl]

Finishing it.

 

[DEL]

Hands down hands.

 

[kevininpdx]

For me it’s when heraldry or other freehand is repeated on the same part. The last time I tried to do three lions I couldn’t get them symmetrical and the same size. I had to strip the shield a ton of times.

 

[Chris Oldfield]

Painting camouflage patterns - particularly when doing the final lining in of details etc, I always seem to slip with the brush somewhere & have to clean up.
Then when I look at the finished pattern, I'm never completely happy with it so I'll either add a few more dots/stripes, leave it for a day or two & then come back & look again before I'm happy with the completed pattern.

It's a form of masochism, I suppose.......

 

[Blind Pew]

Hands. Without a doubt. Looks like I'm in good company as well. You know, I've chosen figures on the basis their hands are in their pockets! This is a problem as the viewer's eye is immediately drawn to what the hands are doing.
Strangest thing is, if the figure's wearing gloves...no problem. What a weirdo.

 

[Blind Pew]

For me it’s when heraldry or other freehand is repeated on the same part. The last time I tried to do three lions I couldn’t get them symmetrical and the same size. I had to strip the shield a ton of times.

Kevin, that's probably one of the toughest things to do in modelling. Not necessarily painting a pattern or design, but keeping it uniform if the design repeats can drive you crazy.

 

[PeterC]

I don't know if this counts since it's a little less about painting, but for me, it's doing work on the base of a model. Basing products are just ok, for the most part, and it's really hard to do DIY stuff that looks any good. I have a bust in my backlog. The model itself is great, but I'm also looking forward to not doing anything with the base except a nice wood stain.

That said, I do agree with those who said eyes were the worst part. That's a close second for me.